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TIL: Whoopi Goldberg is member of the NRA

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GApMJ TIL that former major league baseball player Ron LeFlore first played organized baseball in prison while serving a sentence for armed robbery. After being released, he played for 9 seasons and was largely known as a base stealer.
Y7p8d TIL A horse can have as much as 14.9 horsepower
1PvO TIL about the Zomba Prison Project, a music recording made by inmates of a maximum security prison in Malawi known as the “ waiting room of hell. ” The completed album has 20 songs by 16 prisoners and was nominated for the Best World Music Album in 2016.
1aO6r TIL researchers found naturally occurring lithium in the water supply lowered suicide rates. They were able to measure lithium levels in 27 Texas counties and show those with more lithium in their water had fewer suicides. Similar studies in Greece, Austria, & Japan corroborated the results.
6M6J TIL nearly one in three people in the Arab world is illiterate, including nearly half of all women in the region